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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
Gossip About Julian Hawthorne.

Among literary folk here there has been
good deal Of curiosity felt and expressed as to
Julian Hawthornes sudden disappearance from
the staff of the newspaper upon which he held
the position Of literary critic. Julian Hawthorne
has had a hard time of it. He married young
and has a great many children, and literature
has not been paying enough to keep his ever
increasing family in much comfort They were
living at Throgg's Neck in New Jersey, in des
perately srraitened circumstances he working
blindly and desperately at syndicate stories,
any thing that offered ITSELF when the offer of
the placs as book reviewer came It seemed
almost eodsend 10 him. The salary
was $1,000 year, coming in in com
fortably regular weekly installments, and
all his work was only to write some
two or three columns week, while he had be-
side all the new publications to add to his library
It seemed almost too good to be true, after his
hand to hand processes; to have a large assured
sum of cash coming in every week gave him
sense of ease and security he had not known for
years The trouble with Lowell last autumn
was a great blow to him. but his paper stood by
him nanfully and he lived 1t through successfully
and seemed to have sailed into calm seas at last
when suddenly he quietly disappeared from the
papers pages and no one apparently quite knew
the reason. The literary clique bestirred them
selves uHayainply to discover the cause. It was
incredible he could have voluntarily resigned such
q place and there was not the slightest rumor of
trouble between the management of the journal
and himself In reality it was case of the dog
who grasped at the shadow of the meat in the
brook and lost the substance that he held in his
paws. OF course Julian Hawthorne was not
paid So 900 year for three columns of book re-
view a week: others could be hired to do quite as
we'll for much less but the name he bore, made
| SO great by his father, considered to be
| worth that much But, not contented with this
| liberal sum and light work, and the opportunity
and leisure to write many books as he pleased,
! he began appending his name to works for other
| papers and weekly publications, and hardly had
| a right to be surprised when the head of the
| journal quietly informed him. one fine day, that
he paid for the exclusive use Of his name and as
he was apparently not willing to give that he had
no further use for it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
An localized Portrait of Gladstone.

From the Great Irish Struggle.
Mr. Gladstone is marked, physically as we'll
as mentally for great leader. He is about five
feet nine inches in height, but looks taller His
build is muscular, and but very short time
ago he was able to take q hand at telling tree
with young men. There was a time when he
was one of the most skillful of horsemen. He Is
still great pedestrian, and there scarcely
passes day that he is not to be seen walking.
He walks with his head thrown back and a step
firm and rapid. His countenance is singularly
beautiful He has large dark eyes that fash
brilliantly, even at his age Deep set and with
heavy eyelids, they sometimes give the impress
sion OF the eyes of a hooded
eagle He has large, exquisitely-
chiseled nose. The mouth also is
finely modelled. The head is unusually large
1t was in early youth covered with thick black
hair. The brow IS lofty, and broad, and very
expressive. The complexion is white almost as
wax, and gives the face look OF wonderful del
icacy. The face is the most expressive in the
House of Commons. 1t reflects every emotion
as clearly and rapidly as summer lake its sum
mer sky. When Mr.. Gladstone is angry his
brow is clouded and his eyes shine. When he is
amused his face beams. When he is conrem-
air is joyous if things go we'll, and mournful
when things go ILL., though when the final trial
comes. and he stands convinced that he must
meet absolute and resistless defeat, he looks out
with digniied tranquility.
All the passions of the human soul shine forth
by his look and gesture His voice is powerful,
aud at the same time can be soft, can rise in
menace or sink in entreaty. Allusions have
been made to the vast and heterogeneous stores
of learning which are in this single mans brain.
He has extraordinary subtity Of mind, so that
he is able to present case in thousand differ
ent lights And it is this faculty that has some
| times given him the unpleasant and undeserved
| reputation of sophistry and of duplicity. He
| speaks as a rule with considerable vehemence,
and gesticulates freely. To speak of him as the
| first orator of the House of Commons is to give
very inadequate statement of his position.
| Over and over again in the course of his career
he has turned battle, when he was seemingly
| just beaten into victory, and nobody is ever
| able to say how things will go until Mr.. Glad
| stone has first spoken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23

deep arches. one above the sner. All this out
side is simple but grand looking. Passing
through an open doorway, which was originally
closed by two doors of solid silver. we enter the
chamber of the dead Snltana and her imperial
lover, and are at once struck with its wonderful
mass of decoration. The panels of the walls
and all the columns are beautifully and delicate
ly inlald with mother-of pearl bloodstone coral,
jasper, turquoise lapis-lazuli and other hand
some stones, shaped to represent leaves and
flowers. This ornamentaton is apportioned to
all parts of the resting place of the dead with
such judgment as to make one perfect whole
In the middle of this apartment directly under
the main dome, is a many-sided high screen of
most delicately perforated MARBLE with upper
moldine of inlaid mosaics similar to those on the
walls and columns.
In the middle of the space inclosed by this
screen is a marble sarcophagus, inlaid all over.
and containing inscriptions to the effect that it
is the last resting place of "the exalted one of
the palace" and that ''God alone is powerful"
TO one side of this is the tomb of her
lord and lover, which, because he was a man,
Is little larger and higher We are told that
Shah Jehan intended to build himself a larger
and more magnificent tomb directly across the
river and to connect the two by marble bridge,
but much doubt his ever having had any de-
sire to be laid away from his one love. Ii So il
could only have been matter of vanity, apd a
kind fate stepped in and decreed that he should
sleep beside the wife whose virtues he had i'm
mortalzed.
The marble of the Tai, the inlayings and
carvings. and all the Communications look as
fresh and new as though they had been put to-
eether bat yesterday, and it seems likely that
they will preserve this freshness for thousands
of years to come. The material and color-to
which l really believe the simple ethereal
beauty of the Tai is due-are just adapted to
this peculiar climate, with its perfectly clear
skies and hot, dry atmosphere. With bleak
wntry skies different atmosphere. the en-
tire place would undoubtedly lose much Of its
present dreamy beauty.
do not think that was at all carried away
by a knowledge of the details of the construc
ton of this peerless tomb. which employed
twenty thousand men for seventeen years, and
was inlaid with stones from nearly all parts OF
the world, costing upward of ten million Amer
lean dollara
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
Extemporaneous Speaking.
Boston Trs nscript.

gentleman who has achieved quite reputa-
that there is such thing, and he has Daniel
Webster on his side in maintaining this claim
for that matter. There is to be sure, he says.
''such thing as depending on the inspiration of
the moment, but you have got to sketch out
something in your mind a beginning, even If
only for the purpose of throwing it all away,
point by point when you get up My plan is to
go to work about day beforehand and imagine
the speech that am going to make. from begin
ming to end. In the calm of my chamber of
course. can think up number of things to say.
When | get up to speak | RENE IN Der these
things in a general way, but the difficulty is to
often the connection becomes exceedingly rough.
and there is where the inspiration Of the mo-
ment comes in. Some shred of thought that
comes from glimpse Of some one in the room
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
A Bad Matrimonial Season.
Philadelphia Times.

After a careful review Of the winters doings
at Washington, the women correspondents are
constrained to admit that 'the matrimonial sea-
SON. there has been a disastrous failure. OF the
three or four hundred manageable girls who
went in either official or the more exclusive cir
cles of society, probably score have married as
they hoped to do. which means that they capt
ured husbands with money. Another score or
two married little lower down In the social
scale but the single phalanx still stands about
three hundred strong. All the dinners, teas aud
receptions the opera parties and the germans
were powerless to bring the catches OF the sea-
son to terms and the merry war has been aban-
doned until the seashore reserves can be or
dered into action 1t must be mournful re-
Election for the maidens to entertain, but the av-
erage man does not care to marry for the pur-
pose of living alone In this day of comfortable
clubs. And that is about what Washington So
ciety expects married couples to do, the social
round there being faster and more furious while
it lasts than in any other city in the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
Ouida in London.
in PHILADELPHIA telegraph.

Lucy Hooper, in Philadelphia telegraph
I recently met, at dinner party, an American
gentleman who had been present, a week or two
ago. at afternoon tea" in London. given in
honor of the famous novelist Oulda. He de-
scribes that celebrated lady as being Short and
elderly, and very stout, with remarkably plain
face and yellowish gray hair which last she
wears cut in deep fringe in front and rolled up
into a small knob at the back. She possesses
however, one great and un-English point of
beauty. she has exquisite little hands
and feet. perfect in mold as
they are phenomenally small. "Were you
introduced to her?' l asked NO. he replied;
II have always heard that she detests Amer
leans, so would rot annoy her by the approach
of one of the race she so cordially and openly
dlslikes. But l noticed that she had very
unpleasant voice in speaking; high, shrill, and
harsh in tone, and her manner to those with
whom she conversed was abrupt and naughty to
a marked degree" Ouida had at one time,
Know, great desire to visit the United States,
and now that she has left her beloved Italy it is
possible that she may put this long postponed
project into execution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
THE BLUE GROTTO OF NAPLES.
Some Unfortunate Explorers Who Ventured
There Rashly.

Correspondence Baltimore American.
A terrified glish matron insisted on relating
to me her all but fatal experience in the grotto,
but having started from Naples with the hope of
seeing the cerulean tint represented in the art
magazines of Naples, would not be discour
aged. The sensation of lying fiat in the boat to
avoid complete immersion while being carried
into tine opening at the base of the lofty bluff
is not most enviable one, and 1 confess our
moments of delight were not enhanced by
our Jealous Capriote, who, seemingly to while
away the tedium until wave came to carry
US in, with the most sancti1nonious OF
expressions, related how many hundreds
had been detained in the grotto for venturing
therein when the sea was rough. A French
painter had been imprisoned in the grotto four
days, and lived only on a bottle of rum he had
fortunately carried in his pocket. We were
minus rum, but full of enthusiasm. We waited
breathlessly for the moment to be launched into
the grotto. With both hands against the mouth
of the rock, the Capriote boatman watched his
opportunity, and with tremendous wave we
were carried into the spacious grotto, which is
fifty three meters in length. thirty-two in width
and thirteen in height above the level of the sea,
the depth Of water being about twenty one
meters. The effect is dazzling. Every object
it contained was bathed in an exquisite blue
tint. and all under the water seemed silvered.
The water has a surprising effect on the hu-
man body, and for franc our boatman dipped
into it, and on appearing his body was as white
silver. his face black negro's. About
the middle, on the right, there is small passage
with WORKOUT steps, now built up at the top,
which is said to have been a secret communion
ton with the town of Capri at the time of Tt
berius. According to Valery this supposi:ion is
correct, but the Prussian painter who discovered
the cave was led to seek it by reading of stair
case by which Barbarossa used to descend into
a subterranean retreat from the town of Ana
capri, on the hill AS the tourist is indebted to
the Prussan painter for this unsurpassed
glimpse of loveines, he is entitled to the benefit
of the doubt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23

that you know, taking the shape of a humorous
reference to him. will help you out wond ertuily.
for the personal always takes. Once get the
people to laughing at some of your carefully
thought-out extemporaneous humor, and you
can get in any sort of chestnut on them-evsn
the story OF the tramp who was offered ticket
to banquet, when he was begging for money to
buy food and who, when he found out that there
were going to be after-dinner speeches at this din
ner, preferred to go out andlie down behind shed
and die. This story always makes your hearers
laugh, and acts like wet blanket on the fellows
who come after you, thus giving your address a
relative briliancy that it might not posses 9TH
erwlse Stories, stories always; don't forget
those. And if you can't remember the conEec-
ton that you were going to tell them in, tell
them anyway. But if you really find that you
have thought of something new since you got up,
and are actually inspired to say something that
you hadn't on your programme, don't hesitate to
say It; that one inspiration may give your whole
speech flavor of extemporaneousness And,
above all, don't get into your she'll and refuse
ever 10 make speeches, because that is simply a
means OF demonstrating yourself. Talk up.
somehow, and you will do as we'll as the rest,
after a while"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23

the main entrance against other than lumber
men, anglers and intrusive tourists. The dark
river has, too. its romance, as being the place
which gave rise to melody which. like Home,
Sweet Home" the affection of the heart will
never let go. For it was here that a French
family in the time of Louis XIV came over and
settled upon the Suwanee and made a plantation
After awhile the father and mother and all died
save one daughter, who. disheartened and desc
late, returned to France and there wrote,
adopting in part that negro dialect which she
had been familiar with on the plantation in her
grlhood, feeling tribute to 1.-The old folks at
home in their graves in the far-off country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
Sir Charles Dnke,s Next Work.

London Letter to Liverpool Post
INQUIRIES are often made about Sir Charles
Dixie With a prudence and good feeling which
will be generally acknowledged with pleasure he
is remaining comparatively in private life. His
articles in the Fortnghtly on foreign affairs have
for time sufficiently occupied him. He and
Lady Dixie receive their friends weekly, and Sir
Charles makes no secret of his occupation. His
next public effort will be much enlarged
and improved scale of his Greater Britain.
brought down to data work of which he was
always proud and in the maintenance of which
as text book be never ceases to take deep in
tereSt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
Why They Walked.

Brooklyn Eagle.
''These wretched-looklngp people. with the eyes
SO hungry" said the foreign gentleman to his
American friend, "who stand YEARLY in the
ditch to permit our train to pass,-are they the
evcted peasants, thenr. "Oh. no, no: they are
no peasants That is the American TRACE
dian, the only successor to Forrest and McCul-
Tough. returning with his Incompatible COM
pany of artists from triumphal tour which
was one long-continued ovation" And why,
then. do the conquerors walkg" ITO show the
people that success and the popular homage
have not turned their heads" But why, then.
do they look sadl' Because there are no
other worlds to conquer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23


What is claimed to have been the longest con-
tinuous service conducted in Pennsylvania
was held in the United Brethren Church, this
city, to-day. 1t opened at A. NJ and closed at
8 to night, the participants worshiping and fast
ing for thirteen hours without intermission. The
meeting was in charge Of Rev. Job Light, the
pastor, and was for 1.-The conversion Of sinners,
the recamine of backslders and the sanctifica-
ton Of believers" The service included love
feast. experience invitation and altar exercises
The reading of short sermons and meeting for
children closed the evening service, an immense
congregation present.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
Origin of a Famous Song.

Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Once over the bar at its entrance from the Gulf
the Suwanee river holds its way with deep cur
rent in places of forty feet. far up through the
forests of the best hard pine ia the State 1t is
the Penobscot of Florida. 1t has some good
land upon il where plantations have heretofore
been made. but after awhile generally aban-
doned. The mosquitoes and malaria guard in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
A Chicago Suggestion.
Evening Journal.

Evening Journal
Mrs. Cleveland, it is said, got enough OF the
wild Adirondacks last summer, and prefers
some quiet New England place for the Presi-
dent to spend his vacation in. II she is looking
for real quiet place they might go to St. Louis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23

MORE than one hundred and twenty-five
thousand bottles of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup have
been sold by single firm in Baltimore-Messrs.
VIM. Ii. Brown 81 Bro.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-04-28
NUMBER 9.

A little older than the Duchess OF
Leinster, and coming from stock where
beauty is an hereditary attribute, Miss
Maynard the daughter of the Hon. Col.
Maynard OF the Essex Militia Rifles, took
London by storm in 1879. Herwidowed
mother had been married for the second
time to the Earl of Rosslyn, and was
still splendid matron at the time when
Miss Maynard was won by Lord Brooke.
the Earl of Warwick's eldest son, and
carried off by him TO the despair of a
host of ardent suitors. The future chat
elaine of Warwick, one of the most pict-
uresque and perfect of the many histor-
ical residences of England, has just re-
covered from a severe attack of jaundice.
brought on by the strain and excitement
of the last months and the uncertainty
attending her conjugal future; but the
danger of public and legal litigation Is
ayerted for the present, and Lord and
Lady Brooke not only show themselves
together in their own country. but some
what ostentatiously attend the official
festivities in Dublin. previous to jour
ney on the Continent.
The third lady who has legitimate
claims to beauty worship in her own per-
son is the Marchioness of Londonderry,
wife of the actual Lord Lieutenant OF
Ireland under the Conservative Govern
ment of Lord Salisbury. She is sister
of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot,
the Lord of old Ingestre Hall. in Stat
fordshire, the infatuated young man who
some years ago, when hardly of age, ran
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-04-28

Senator Vest says that the death of
Capt. Eads, in his opinion, ends the
scheme to build a ship railway across
the isthmus of Tehauntepec. He was
not only the inventor, but the soul and
inspiration of the project, and owns four
fifths of the stock. ''AIr. Andrews, his
chief partner and supporter in the
affair."" said the senator, '.has backed
him in nearly all his other great en-
cheering enterprises. He had unbounded
confidence in the skill and Judgment of
Capt. Eads as an engineer, and to this
unbounded confidence was added almost
unlimited wealth. Mr.. Andrews is at
present in Mexico looking after some
large mining interests, and the stockhold-
ers are awaiting his return to hold a
conference, when it viii be decided
whether the enterprise is to be pushed to
completion, or whether the whole project
shall be dropped. Notwithstanding the
confidence of the stockholders in the
ability of Mr.. Andrews to continue and
complete the work which Eads planned,
my conviction is that when the great
name of Eads has been lost, the public
confidence which that name inspire, and
which is necessary to the success of the
undertaking, will be wanted, and the
Eads ship railway cannot be built.